Luctor et Emergo" is a heart-warming, true story about the author's parents and their loss of hearing at a young age. The Latin phrase "Luctor et Emergo" means "I struggle and overcome." This simple Latin expression was often quoted by the author's father, Horace E. Dean, and it sums up the theme of the book. People can overcome the most difficult of circumstances in life if they will persevere. The book details the myriad of challenges the author's deaf parents faced throughout life and their persistent determination to overcome their disability and disappointments with their faith in God....

In early 1963, Jake Townley had very little to show for a man in his early 40s. His business efforts had not met with success and his family barely had enough food on the table. Yet, he placed his faith in the Lord. And once the Lord moved, a success story began to unfold and continues today - a story of overcoming - a story of encouragement - a story of tenacity - a story of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire - a story of empowerment that leads to excellence - a story of love for family, the Savior and of the fellow man - a story of vision, staying power and grit, persistence,...

A change in governing culture is vitally necessary in order to transform the manner in which many government organizations operate. Businesses either change the way they do business or they go out of business when current challenges are not being met. However, government is perpetual which makes it more difficult to change in order to attain performance excellence as compared to its business counterparts. The main premise of this book is that government organizations can achieve performance excellence through the adoption of the proven principles set forth in this writing. It is time to adopt...

People are attracted to leaders with a servant's heart. People believe that leaders with a servant's heart genuinely care. A change in the organizational culture is necessary in order to transform the manner in which many organizations operate. The adoption and implementation of The Servant Organization Framework will ultimately lead to higher performance results for the organization. The Servant Organization is a framework which, when implemented, stimulates creativity, mission focus, performance results and job satisfaction within organizations. This book is intended to be an overview...

This book is not about church doctrine. The purpose of this book is to provide a leadership and management framework which can improve church operations through the implementation of time-tested and proven practices which we call The Servant Organization for Jesus Framework. If you are a pastor, or a deacon, or if you are in some level of church administration, you should read this book. We predict that this book will give the reader insight as to how church organizations can be improved significantly. It is our opinion that church organizations, like all other organizations of human...

"Angel in Disguise" is a heartwarming true story about Lily Emilia Gamst Dean, the author's mother. Lily, despite seemingly insurmountable odds against her, overcame her handicap of total hearing impairment from a life threatening illness. She lived a life dedicated to the well-being of others. Lily was a remarkable woman, who lived life in the quiet shoals of an otherwise rushing stream. She encouraged all who knew her to reach out further in life than they otherwise would have without her inspiration.

The level of trust and creative thinking which exists within an organization is dependent upon the leadership culture in the organization. Without a culture of caring which engenders employee trust and fosters creativity, an organization facing threatening challenges will not succeed. In such cases, businesses ultimately will fail. In government, because government cannot really fail, the government organization which lacks creative thinking becomes mired in average or poor performance. Not for profit organizations which lack creative thinking will also ultimately cease to be relevant....

The ABC's of bad leadership are: arrogance, bullying, complacency and corruption. Each of these ABC's of bad leadership are negative values. Leadership is either value positive or value negative. Leadership, like the culture of an organization, is never value neutral. It is the leader who chooses whether to be value positive or value negative. This choice by the leader is the single most important factor which shapes the culture of an organization. It is also why it is important to understand the nature of negative value leadership. Negative value leadership is bad leadership. In the book,...